Hutong Sauna 10

2/F Kar Wong Building
639 - 645 Shanghai Street
Mong Kok
Kowloon
Hong Kong
MTR: Mong Kok Station, Exit A2

(Cross Shanghai Street from Mong Kok Station Exit A2.  Building entrance is actually on the pedestrian-only part of Fife Street)

Tel: 2396 9595
Web: Hutong Sauna
Open 24 hours    

Received from a reader today. (Side Headings and minor editing by FuelMix):

Hi FIM

It must has been a while since I wrote to you last time. I had been following your blog since the first time I found your site and below is a review of the Hutong sauna and hope it can help your readers. Please edit the article for me if necessary.


1.  Getting There And Finding It

It was a Saturday afternoon at the end of September. I arrived by 5pm and found the location easy to find and access from the MTR exit but I admit that reading Chinese did help a lot. The sauna was situated in a block of flats and there was an iron gate on the entrance. A panel of buttons supposedly for the residents are fitted outside by the gate. However, the one for Hutong sauna was on top of the panel and apparently a camera was fitted in the wall too, so it may give the ability for Hutong to select its preferred customers by seeing through the camera. The entrance was on a side street so it's quite discreet.


2.   Getting In, Payment And Staff Attitude

After passing the first gate, up about 2 stories in a stairway and directions were given twice to lead to the final destination. There was a doorbell outside the sauna but as you have been permitted in the first gate, you should have no problem on entering this one. 

The admission: $159, but they won't expect to give you the $1 change so the actual price was $160, making it the most expensive sauna in town ( I guess?). 

One of the staff on duty was very cold and didn't greet. Maybe he was spoiled by the flattering customers who tried to pass the strict door policy imposed since its predecessor, Double sauna.


3.   Layout

  The place was new and tidy. Immediately after the reception there was a changing room and a dining room. There were complimentary drinks ( cold as in Chrysanthemum tea and peach juice drinks, as well as hot tea and coffee). I also noticed that some customers had their bowls of noodles, whether this was free or payable, had to be confirmed. 

After the changing room there was a lounge flanked with a rest room.  They were both clean and sizable. That was the upper floor and the main part of the sauna was on the lower floor.

Immediately after the stairs it's an area of showers, a steam room and a sauna. Following a narrow passage, it's the maze+ dark rooms+ cabins where the action took place. On entering, there were an array of hooks with numbers on both side of the wall for towels, supposedly, the maze was a nude zone. The maze was designed in a way that it's so narrow that people had to rub into others when passing. In many occasions it's so jammed that one just couldn't get through. It's could be fun as well as annoying.


4.   The Clientele

Clientele wise, mainly GAM from 20-40 and most were in shape and many were muscular. Only 2 out of the 50-ish customers were GWM both in their 30s and fit. None from other race groups were seen.

Plenty of standing and modelling behaviour and tons of attitude. Apparently, this is a sauna for Muscle Marys and they were looking for other Muscle Marys or just to be served .


5.  The Verdict.......Would I Go Back.....?

The place was very clean and sizeable but other than that, I didn't find it fun. 

I went to Double a couple of years ago and the attitude of that place pissed me off and I never went back. I was hoping for an improvement of its successor, Hutong, in terms of the attitude and atmosphere, but I found it the same. 

Maybe it's what some people like it to be. For me, I would never go back considering that there are 4 flagship saunas in MK area. I couldn't care less, but it seems it suits FIM well though(lol).


FuelMix says:

FuelMix has not yet been to Hutong.  Deliberately.  He keeps hearing stuff about this place - which he will not publish - that goes beyond their alleged door policy and staff attitude.  He decided to let the readers run the reviews on this one.

At HK$159 / 160.00 "official" entry fee, this appears to be the most expensive gig in town. (And too cheap to give a buck in change...???!!!)  You may have paid that because you are not a "special" or VIP customer or didn't have a Membership Card.  We know that certain GAM muscleboys get in for virtually nothing.

Thanks for the update. 

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